Earlier this year, Ulrich Barns, located in Cleburne, Texas, had a chance to help out the Bob Jones Nature Center by building a new shed, the company says. The center holds homeschool sessions, pre-school, and summer camps for kids of all ages to learn about conservation and environmental education. A[Read More…]
Year: 2016
Builder Launches New Website to Increase Sales
Timberline Barns LLC of Rose Hill, Virginia, recently launched a new website built by E-Impact Marketing of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, the company reports. Timberline hopes to expand the reach of their storage sheds and garage customers through an online presence. In the past, Timberline Barns has sold wooden storage sheds from[Read More…]
Making the most of Your Sales Lot
When a potential customer takes their first step onto your sales lot, what do they see? Sales staff ready to answer questions? Brochures they can take home as they consider their buying options? Lots of options to meet a wide variety of buyers’ needs? If word of mouth is the[Read More…]
Connecticut Builder Selected ‘Best Place to Buy a Shed’
The Barn Yard in Connecticut won two awards in the 2016 North Central News Readers Poll, the company reports. The company was selected by readers as Best Place to Buy a Shed or Garage and Best Family Business. The Barn Yard and Great Country Garages is a third-generation family business[Read More…]
More Than One Way to Sell a Shed (Part 1)
In traveling around the country, you will find many different types of shed lots. Some will be full store fronts with indoor and outdoor displays of many outdoor products ranging from sheds and other portable buildings to poly furniture and windmills. Others will be a few sheds on display outside[Read More…]
Why Homeowners Buy Sheds
Homeowners have lots of reasons for wanting a shed. Improving the look and feel of one’s space is the overwhelming number-one reason. Making their space more functional, increasing home value and changing lifestyle needs come into play, too. Homeowners strive to make their homes a sanctuary from outside stress caused[Read More…]
Rent Generation Here to Stay
The tendency of millennials to rent instead of buy is turning the retail industry upside down. And the shed industry is no exception. The rent tendency brought on by the millennials has impacted older generation buyers as well. The large acceptance of the rent culture has made the rent-to-own option[Read More…]
Never Trust a Skinny Manager
Show me a skinny manager and I’ll show you a man who is neglecting some of his true management responsibilities. I’m exaggerating, of course, and perhaps I am just jealous of anyone who can still see the tops of their shoes. But I do struggle at times to explain to[Read More…]
Marketing a Shed
Through experience, I have seen what works and what does not. I’m going to share a few funny stories and my thoughts on properly marketing sheds. Keep in mind that I came into the shed business as a shed user and didn’t know much about sheds at all. I came[Read More…]
From Sheds to Tiny Homes
You’ve undoubtedly heard about the growing popularity of tiny houses. They’re cute, far less expensive to buy and maintain than the average American home, and can even be built on wheels, meaning they can be mobile, too. Tiny houses are attracting so much recognition that members of the industry hold[Read More…]
